Surprise

[Alice Faber]

Randy Alexander wrote:
> 1. Does anyone with a rhotic dialect rhoticize the first "r" in
> "surprise" (I don't).

It's hard to introspect about these things, but I believe that I do, at
least sometimes, pronounce "surprise" with both rhotics intact.


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